Narrating a train journey he had taken from the Bangladesh frontier to Calcutta, during which he saw an old man die, it became a meditation on borders and in-between spaces, life and death.
The liminal, the interstitial (the border, the threshold, the in-between), brings forth new forms of identities that complicate any rigid construction of self and other.
"These added security measures mean that from curb to the cockpit, at our ports of entry and borders in between, and our public places in cyberspace, on air and land and sea, we are better protected than we ever have been before," he said.
It is shown that, at short times, the dominant mechanism for tracer dispersion is due to liquid drainage in the froth rather than due to packed-bed type behaviour as liquid percolates through a network of Plateau borders in between the bubbles.
The simple twist or chain border in yellow between the two raised frames resembles an element in an initial in the Durham Gospel Book Fragment, an important earlier manuscript from Lindisfarne.
The next village, a few hundred metres away, is in Uzbekistan, and the border runs across the fields in-between.
Note that he doesn't mention a clear border in the area between "Candahar" and Peshawar, now in Afghanistan and Pakistan respectively — still a problem.
Once, even after the old Yugoslavia disintegrated in bloodshed, a traveler might barely have noticed that there was a border in the mountains between Serbia and Montenegro.
The Canadian-American border, the longest border in the world between two countries, is as willful an act of imagination as a work of conceptual curtaining by Christo, but its existence has made two separate peoples, with two separate stories.
Even the least friendly border in the world, between South and North Korea, still sees people occasionally sneak across to defect.
